The other invisible hand delivering public services through choice and competition

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to t...

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1. Verfasser: Le Grand, Julian (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, Oxford Princeton Univ. Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung:How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Le Grand has just completed a period as policy advisor working within the British government at the highest levels, and from this he has gained evidence to support his earlier t
How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Le Grand has j
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XI, 195 S.
22 cm
ISBN:0691129363
0-691-12936-3
9780691129365
978-0-691-12936-5